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Here's one of the
benefits of working with a charity: if you're going to put
together an auction for your church to benefit your church, you
would speak with the pastor and arrange for them to promote the
auction to the church membership.
The same thing could happen if you worked through a school. Offer
to put together an auction for them. People will literally donate
the items to the auction. This is the power of charity: they
donate the items and then you put them up on the Internet Auction
sites for the church for a very small percentage of the total
take. For example, if you want to make a profit, or you're just a
good-natured soul and you really want to help the cause, by all
means, you're free to donate your time and energy to the auction.
There's actually money to be made doing this for charitable
causes.
These people would donate the items, you put them up, and whatever
you sell, you'll take out your percentage and pay the charity.
This is the kind of thing that can get some real publicity - one
of the powerful things that we see about this whole concept. It's
unique and it's new. Churches, schools, and various other causes
for decades and centuries have had charity auctions where the
actual membership comes and buys the stuff from each other. It
winds up being, basically, a garage sale with bidding.
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